Nice build! I like the bakelite furniture. I built one with a milled kit. I never thought about milling on the RSB to fit the trunnion. It looks good that way. I milled out the trunnion to fit. Thanks for the pics. Don't see many builds posted lately.

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Beautiful Work!!!

Hey Rahatlakhoom,
That is some beautiful work! A few years ago I got one of the single stack Bulgarian built AKs with the thumbhole stocks from CFS that had been constructed using milled parts. I had to do some work to convert her back to her original glory but the end result was great! As always your work is SUPERIOR!
will6970

twice in one night, yes when the first ak kits came into the country early 1990 most were milled so some of the boys (old timers) filed and/or milled the trunnion down and drilled to the trunnion so they could place the rivets, but I believe the used the screw in barrels

Great looking rifle . Did you have a post somewhere explaining how you "reamed" the fr.trunnion ? I'm curious as to how you did that and what about the undercuts inside the trunnion for the rivets to be mashed, that would make them around .020 shallower, would it not ?
Did you consider turning down the chamber OD to 22mm as an alternative ?